The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-24
FLORIDA.


The Ornond bridge is paying over copper
cent.
At Tallahassee the Leon hotel opened yes
terday.
An Orlando grocer sold $3.50 worth of
goods Wednesday.
The Palatka Regatta Club will have a
series of races next week.
A two-headed calf was born near Sentaf-
fey few days ago. 1t soon died.
The woods in the vicinity of Bayard are
redolent with the odor of white violets.
The track layers of the Georgia Southern
and Florida railroad have crossed the To
besofkee trestle.
The Circuit Court for Leon county is in
session, but no very important cases have
been deciaed as yet.
Commencing with Monday last, Dec 10,
the mail service of the Orange Belt railway
was extended from Clermont to Mascotte.
The little steam tow boat and ferry boat
Spring Garden sank Tuesday night at st.
Augustine. She will be raised in a few
days.
An effort will be made to get up a series
of sculling races at the Sub-Tropical EXPOSE
ton between Ham and Mckay, the profess
SIGNALS
The Adjutant General has had some much
needed Improvement made in the capitol
building and the fence around the square at
Tallahassee.
Rev. C. V. Waugh, principal of the
Douglas Home School at Gainesville, has
been elected President of the Female College
at Griffin, Ga.
r. b. Sewer & Co., grocers, of Ybor
City have assigned to A. G. Wuerpel. Mr..
w. r. Burke will auction off the stock,
beginning to-day.
The Bombay Manufacturing Company is
going to remove its mill and extensive plant
to Bombay, having secured suitable site
on which to erect their buildings.
The State Supreme Court will meet on
Jan. 2, and several of the Circuit Judges of
the State will sit in cases in which Judges
Maxwell and Raney are disqualified.
w. G. Burlington will exhibit meteoric
stone at the Sub Tropical Exposition weigh
ing about 200 pounds, which fell on his
farm about one mile from Middleburg.
The junction of the Orange Belt and
| Florida Midland roads, three miles from
Atlamonte Spring, lately known as Alta
monte, has been christened Palm Springs.
The furniture for the San Juan de Ulloa
| Hotel at Orlando arrived Wednesday by
| through cars from Grand Rapids, Mich
The hotel will certainly be opened by Jan. l.
Rev. A. j. Briggs, who was two years ago
pastor of the Palafox Street Methodist
| church at Pensacola, died of heart disease
last Saturday night, at Robinson Springs,
| Ala.
A new water tank, ten feet square and
capable of containing 10000 square feet of
water, or $4,000 pounds of it, has been
! put up for the Orange Belt railroad, atsome
| point near Macon.
| At Bombay Mr. Warner has completed his
new residence. Mr.. Armstrong; naw house
is rapidly approaching completion. The
! citizens are making strong effort to run
him as Justice, and he has become the ia
vorite of all.
Early this week some ten or twelve
| Spanish smacks were reported to be cruising
in the vicinity of Tortugas, all loaded with
lieved they were endeavoring to smuggle
into Key West.
Contrary to some other places in Florida,
| which are complaining of dull times and a
scarcity of new corners, Bombay, in all de
partments of business, is active and brisk,
and the outlook for the winter season is on
the whole good
At Tampa. about $3.50 o'clock Tuesday
night, fire was discovered in the residence
of Col. A. 2. Brockway. Efforts were made
TO quench the flames, but i'll vain. The
building and all the furniture was de-
stroyed. The loss is 81 600.
Three marriage licenses were issued by
the County Judge at Orlando Wednesday.
One party applying stated that he would
have to walk twenty miles to get there in
time, and that he hardly had time to wait
\ for the making out of the paper.
Nearly all the oranges in Ormond and
vicinity have been bought on the trees at
satisfactory prices to the iaisers. Messrs.
Beach, Knox g. Beach, of Mound Grove.
who shipped $500 boxes last season, still
hold their crop. They are building a fine
residence.